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Thailand, Australia Sign Telecom Pact

Updated July 4, 2004 9:33 p.m. ET

Australia and Thailand will step up cooperation in the area of telecommunications and information technology under a pact signed on Monday. Australian Communications Minister Daryl Williams said the agreement, inked in tandem with the Australia-Thailand free trade treaty, fits with Australia's pursuit of bilateral and multilateral arrangements to combat spam. Australia and Thailand are both members of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity and the International Telecommunication Union. "Both countries are committed to developing competitive telecommunications sectors in order to increase trade and investment and to stimulate...